Territory



J. H. STEVENS. RIVETING TOOL.

(No Model.)

1 Iva/349,466.

Patented Sept.-21, 1886.

INVENTOIi ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES HERBERT STEVENS, OF PINE BLUFF, VVYUMING TERRITORY.

RlVETlNG-TO OL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,466, dated September 21, 1886. Application filed June 22, 1886. Serial No. 205,898. No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

c it known that I, JAMES HERBERT STE- VENs, of Pine Bluff, in the county of Laramie and Territory of Wyoming, have invented a new and Improved Riveting-Tool, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. My invention relates to tools adapted for setting rivets into leather or metal straps or other articles to be joined; and it is the object of the invention to provideasimple, inexpensive, handy, and efficient tool of this character for the use of farmers, tradesmen, and others, and an implement which may be operated quickly and easily, and by which the rivets maybe securely set in the work.

The invention consists in certain peculiarities in the construction of the riveting-tool,all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying. drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a side elevation of my improved riveting-tool; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same, taken on the line a: 00, Fig. 1.

I make the rivetingtool with a round shank or body portion, A, formed or provided at one end with a punch, 13, about the diameter of an ordinary copper rivet, and in the shank there is formed a hole, 0, around which at one face of the shank there is provided a boss or projection, D, the opposite face of the shank around the hole being preferably formed with a projection or enlargement, E, to receive the blows of a hammer.

At the end of the tool opposite the punch there is a formed or fixed to the shank A a head-piece, F, in one end of which there is formed a concavity, G, suitably shaped to give a proper convex form or finish to the upset end of a rivet, and the other end of the head-piece F is preferably enlarged, as at H, or may be otherwise suitably shaped to re: ceive the blows of a hammer used in upsetting the rivet, and at the center of the head-piece and in line with the tool-shank A, a suitable boss, I, is provided, to receive the blows of a hammer when using the punch.

The operation is as follows: The parts to be joined by a rivet or rivets will first be pierced by the punch B, driven by a hammerstroke on the boss I as the tool is held by its shank A. The rivet then will be inserted in the punched hole, and after the usual washer is placed on the projecting end of the rivet the tool will be adjusted to inclose the end of the rivet in the hole 0, and while the tool is held by the head-piece F a stroke of a hammer on the boss or face E of the shank will force the washer down tightly to the work by the pressure of the boss D, whereupon the tool will be lifted from the rivet, and will be held by its shank A, while the concavity Gis placed over the projecting end of the rivet, and blows of a hammer are given on the end H of the head-piece, to upset the end of the rivet on the washer and give the end'of the rivet a neat convexed finish or head.

The head-piece F may be made to screw onto the end of the shank A, or so as to fold against the shank to take up less room when laid away; but with the solid headitoccupies small space, and the construction shown and above described is preferred, as there is no chance of loss of the head-piece.

The punch B may be made removable from the shank, and the aperture 0 may be formed in a removable sleeve slipped into a hole in the shank, to adapt the tool for use in setting rivets of various sizes by substituting one punch or .bored sleeve for another, as will readily .be understood.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I 1. A riveting-tool made with a shank, A, provided with a punch, B, and alateral aperture, O, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

2. A riveting'tool made with a shank, A, provided with a punch, B, a lateral aperture, 0, and a' head-piece on the shank provided with a concavity, G, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

3. A riveting-tool made with a shank, A,

provided with a punch, B, a lateral aperture, G, a boss, D, surrounding said aperture, and

a head-piece provided with a concavity, G substantially as described, for t shank and provided with a concavity, G, at set forth.

he purposes one end, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth. 4. A riveting-tool made with a shank, A

, JAMES HERBERT STEVENS, 5 provided with a punch, B, a lateral aperture, Witnesses:

O, a. boss, D, surrounding said aperture, and ALFRED GATES,

a head-piece projecting each way from the STEPHEN S. BAGGE. 

